Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
Crucially, such a change wouldn't be a burden at all on the manufacturers that *are* building durable stuff (they are already meeting these obligations voluntarily); it purely targets those manufacturers who are trying to kill the market by flooding it with effectively disposable junk to slightly undercut the rest.
It levels the playing field for everyone involved. Even from a 'market-driven society' perspective this would make total sense.
(This sets it apart from things like "being respectful towards others", "respecting boundaries", "being supportive", etc. - all of which are good qualities, but which crucially are not actually a part of professionalism)
The real reason for an expectation of "professionalism" in workplaces, is an attempt to collectively disguise the horrors of capitalism
Proposal:
- Legally require all consumer products to specify an expected lifespan in all their marketing materials.
- Extend the "legal guarantee" in EU to cover whatever the claimed expected lifespan is, under the same terms as are used now (but no shorter than the existing minimums).
I bet that this would cause a significant industry shift towards durability. Because making something much more durable is often only slightly more expensive, but unless corner-cutting manufacturers are required to be transparent about their corner-cutting, price is often the only thing that products are judged by.
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She's not daft, my mate. UI designers just behave as though they live in a vacuum. They think that when someone looks at their menu, it's the first menu that user has ever seen, and they haven't seen a hundred menus a day with a massive button saying "Yeah make everything worse lol" and a tiny text link that says "Just let me get on with it for a minute."
This is the new normal, UI designers. Your users expect hot garbage, and they expect it so hard that they'll treat your Very Important Question the same way they'd treat any other spyware cookie crap that every website insists is a Very Important Question, and they'll just give whatever answer will let them continue while being mildly annoyed.
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Helping out a mate set up her #gameDad recently. She got to a page asking a question and prodded the buttons without reading. I went "Wait hang on what did that say," we never found out but it was Probably something about updating a list of ports? Who knows! Anyway it started up fine, but... like, twenty years ago I would've gone, like, "Mate what are you doing," but these days...
When every website you visit thrusts a thing in your face as you're scrolling and you know it's spam so you just hit the heck-off button without looking, never mind reading
When every game you play starts with a bunch of logo videos that you have to mash buttons to skip
When a new game throws some bollocks up about an EULA that nobody expects anyone to ever read
When every three days your computer goes "Hey can I just -" and you read it once and understand that it's asking you to install spyware and then every other time you hit the Remind Me In 3 Days button without thinking or even pausing
When every day you get an email that says "Important information about your account" and it's never important information
When 80% of your physical mail goes straight into the recycling bin without even being opened because, well, it's just recycling
...yeah. It's absolutely no surprise that our default first interaction with a machine is to mash buttons randomly until it stops banging on about whatever and gets on with doing what we bought it to do.
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Back in 1999 when you'd go to join a new forum there'd be a rules page, and at the bottom would be a big bright eye-catching "AGREE AND CONTINUE" button, and a little way above it, in the rules themselves, would be something like "To prove that you've read the rules, click on the period at the end of this sentence."
Clicking on "AGREE AND CONTINUE" would issue a two hour IP ban so you could Actually Read The Rules, and also think about what you'd done.
1999 was a hell of a year
LLMs, Firefox
"Insights" tab on the vertical sidebar, apparently.
LLMs, Firefox
I have not yet confirmed this, but it seems that a Firefox Nightly (Larch) build has popped up with some kind of "generative AI" integration...
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I just want you to know that I don’t know a single #trans person who isn’t suffering mental health concerns over the sheer volume of hate being sent our way.
Many of us might be putting on a brave face, but those same folks are much closer to not being here any more than many of those folks would admit. Including me.
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And I can understand it, questioning authority is a good thing, and I guess most of us have so little control over our lives nowadays that people want to push back where they can - if you have no control over how much rent you pay, can be no-fault evicted with little notice, your bus service no longer runs, your job gets made redundant and your benefits get sanctioned for no discernible reason I guess any attempt to restrict where you can drive your car feels like something you can resist
@jana Ahh, the curse of "now *everything* must be NixOS"
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So, question for #Blind Masto users:
So, I'm doing a comic. I care about accessibility. For alt text on a whole comic page, with maybe six to eight panels a page and lots of text, what is best of the alt text.
NOTE: I have access to the full range of search engines. Please only comment from lived experience as a comic artist or blind user.
amazon "AI" shops, LLMs, etc.
It's kind of incredible how everyone seems to have completely forgotten about how IBM claimed that Watson was a general AI and then it all turned out to just be smoke and mirrors, and how people are uncritically believing in every new iteration of this exact same scam
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I'd like to get off Kagi. What search engine should I pay for?
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Concept: A 3D printer that prints something that can be instantly and completely recovered to be re-3D printed into something else, so you don't end up with a landfill worth of junk
@capjamesg@indieweb.social Here's a list of all the ones in the Netherlands: https://nieuws.ns.nl/een-echte-goudse-piano-op-station-gouda/ (and Gorinchem is supposed to get one apparently, but not sure if that has already happened)
@eb I remember running into a large ecommerce site a while ago, that turned out to be entirely built out of XML + XSLT... forgot which one it was though. Something sports-related?
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Reported to the landlord a while ago that there seemed to be birds nesting on the roof, under the solar panels. Contractor just showed up, and determined that I do not, in fact, have birds under the panels.
But every other house in the block does
community management, "self-organized moderation"
"Self-organized moderation", ie. trying to preferentially resolve moderation issues among peers rather than using power structures is a good thing to strive for, but...
You don't achieve that by telling people "we won't moderate, tell people yourself if you have an issue with them", you achieve that by codifying that boundaries of others must be respected and make it clear that you will step in if they're not.
If you just tell people to do it themselves, but you never actually provide the supporting infrastructure to do so, nor build the social culture necessary... then all you've done is declare open season on marginalized folks.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
